(Feel free to make modifications . . .simply click the EDIT button, make changes, and then click SAVE on the edit bar)

Dragging MS Office Files to MacBook Apps

Drop Office files on OpenOffice / LibreOffice
Try dropping Word files on Pages . . . see what happens.
Try dropping Excel files on Numbers . . see what happens.
Drop Powerpoint files on Keynote . . . see what happens.

Word Processing "Cheat Sheet" created by Nick Waugh of RSU #10 Western Foothills

PDFs

A Learning in Maine Post on PDFs
Creating PDF Documents
Creating PDF Video Tutorial at MSAD#60

Pages

Pages at Learning in America

Keynote

Keynote at Learning in America

Other Word Processing Choices

Word Processing at Learning in America

Online Places to Convert Files to Something Different

Opening Files That Won't

Zamzar - Free Online File Conversion

Cropped Screen Shots

1. Find something staring you in the face on your computer screen.
2. Press the Command + Shift + 4 keys together.
3. Note the "cross-hair" that pops up . . . click and hold in a corner of what you want to capture and drag diagonally across to highlight the area . . . and then release.
4. You'll find a file on your desktop with the name Picture 1 . . . Picture 2 . . . etc.
5. Open it and there you are!

Some advantages and disadvantages: They are very small in file size so are very handy for using on web pages if you wish your pages to load fast. On the other handy, they don't print out hardcopies particularly well. They also are read-only, but if you then in turn save it as a pdf using Mike's method, notes/annotations may be added.

OCR

Free Online OCR That Works

Opening Appleworks Files on a MacBook

I suspect you can drop Appleworks document files right onto the icons on the dock and have them open as well.

Try these for starters and let me know how it goes:

AppleWorks (WP) word processing ==> Pages
AppleWorks (SS) spread sheet ==> Numbers or NeoOffice
Appleworks (PR) presentation ==> KeyNote or NeoOffice

AppleWorks (DR) drawing ==> Acorn??? Or EazyDraw demo ([ http://www.eazydraw.com/ ]http://www.eazydraw.com/) . (Can then export to Keynote if wish.)

Not sure how formatting will be affected . . .

Kim Hilton's Method:

I found some old Appleworks documents and figured out how to open them on my MacBook!

"Right click" on the document (With your MacBook, you press Control as you click)
Choose "Open With" and select Pages.
The document should open up just fine!

Even better??? You can save it as a Word document! Choose "Save As" and click the blue arrow to give you more options. There's a box to check that says "Save Copy As." If you check the box, you can choose to save it as a Word document.

I hope you guys find this as helpful as I did! I figured it out myself, without pestering my Geek husband, so I'm very excited! :)

Kim

More on Converting Appleworks Files
Appleworks to NeoOffice

Noteshare

Noteshare at Learning in Maine